Highlights on football recruiting

Last week the NFL released the official invite list for this year’s Combine. We did some research, crunched the numbers, and found quite a few interesting trends and data points. Here’s a link to some or our prior findings with the Combine. 2019 Official Invite List – Total players 338 Combine Position stats Q&A: […]

As draft analysis for the 2019 NFL draft continues, I have reviewed the multi-sport data for defensive tackles. I have pulled the consensus top draft rated DTs for the 2019 NFL draft. CBS Sports was the source of the rankings. In a previous blog, I discussed the PAI, Shot Put, and discus data for O-Linemen. Linemen […]

As we gear up for draft day and College Football Playoff lets take a look at an important metric for linemen. We know the 40 yard dash and 100 meters is something we associate with skill positions. What about the men in the trenches? Tracking Football has looked at years of data and what we […]

Appreciate the article written by Coach Anthony Stone. The article’s focus was the latest NFL Draft data on multi-sport backgrounds of players drafted. He brings up some interesting points about the emphasis of multi-sport participation within schools has changed and attitudes towards specialization among coaches is different too. Here’s a link to the article: What […]

Tracking Football is an NCAA compliant football scouting service providing FBS programs in the ACC, American, Big Ten, Big 12, Independent, MAC and Pac-12 with athletic analytical information on over 15,000 high school football prospects. Tracking Football has studied the high school multiple sport backgrounds of all NFL Draft picks since 2008. Player Athletic Index […]

1,162 out of 1,321 (88%) Those are the numbers of players invited to the NFL Scouting Combine, since 2015, that were high school multi-sport athletes according to a recent study conducted by Tracking Football. More importantly, the average Player Athletic Index score of invited players over the past four years was significantly higher than that of DI-FBS […]